3-080 - Perceptions of Societal Fairness and Social Exclusion among Urban Minority Youth: Findings from the NYCASES

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Despite our best efforts in recent years, our understanding of adolescent development is mostly based on cross-sectional studies and to a large degree based on majority youth populations. In this paper symposium, we will present findings from a longitudinal study conducted with urban minority youth, titled New York City Academic and Social Engagement Study (NYCASES). This three-wave study gathered mixed methods data from more than 500 adolescents over three waves during high school years. The papers presented in this panel examine how perceptions of societal fairness and social exclusion influence adolescent development. These are understudied domains of central importance to the development of urban, immigrant and minority youth. The first examines potential relations between belief in the fairness of the American system, internalizing behavior and substance use among minority immigrant and native adolescents over time. The second examines the extent to which social capital predicted fair society beliefs and civic commitments and whether fair society beliefs mediated associations between social capital and civic commitments among urban immigrant youth over time. The third examines the role of stereotype vulnerability on academic engagement and how this relation will vary by gender for minority youth. Using sophisticated data analytical procedures, each paper significantly contributes to our understanding of diverse urban minority youth development in the United States.

Sub Unit

• Race, Ethnicity, Culture, Context

Chair

• Selcuk R. Sirin, New York University

Discussant

• Matthew Diemer, Univ of Michigan

Individual Presentations

• Beliefs about the American system predict risky behavior over the course of adolescence among minority immigrant and native youth - Presenting Author: Erin Brooke Godfrey, New York University; Taveeshi Gupta, New York University; Selcuk R. Sirin, New York University; Laura Wray-Lake, University of Rochester

• Examining Correlates of Civic Engagement among Immigrant Adolescents in the United States - Presenting Author: Laura Wray-Lake, University of Rochester; Wendy M Rote, University of Rochester; Taveeshi Gupta, New York University; Erin Brooke Godfrey, New York University; Selcuk R. Sirin, New York University

• Examining Intersectional Invisibility among Urban Adolescents - Presenting Author: Juan S Del Toro, New York University; Selcuk R. Sirin, New York University